Hi there! This is Fawaz. Currently a postdoc in Bioinformatics at the Steinegger Lab at Seoul National University.
I did my master's in Bioinformtaics at University of Saarland, and my PhD at Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf under the supervision of Tobias Marschall and Olga Kalinina. My PhD work mainly focused on developing software in the field of graph genomics and sequence to graph alignment. I developed BubbleGun for detecting bubbles and superbubbles in genome graphs (publication here). I then developed PanPA (the PanProteome Aligner) for building genome graphs from amino acid sequences and alignment of both DNA and amino acid sequences against these graphs (publication here).
I am currently part of AEGIS working on ancient genomics.
At the moment, working on gfaidx, a genome graph node-based indexer.